[][src]Module goose::goose

Helpers and objects for building Goose load tests.

Goose manages load tests with a series of objects:

  • GooseTaskSet each client is assigned a task set, which is a collection of tasks.
  • GooseTask tasks define one or more web requests and are assigned to task sets.
  • GooseClient a client state responsible for repeatedly running all tasks in the assigned task set.
  • GooseRequest optional statistics collected for each URL/method pair.

Creating Task Sets

A GooseTaskSet is created by passing in a &str name to the new function, for example:

    let mut loadtest_tasks = GooseTaskSet::new("LoadtestTasks");

Task Set Weight

A weight can be assigned to a task set, controlling how often it is assigned to client threads. The larger the value of weight, the more it will be assigned to clients. In the following example, FooTasks will be assigned to clients twice as often as Bar tasks. We could have just added a weight of 2 to FooTasks and left the default weight of 1 assigned to BarTasks for the same weighting:

    let mut foo_tasks = GooseTaskSet::new("FooTasks").set_weight(10);
    let mut bar_tasks = GooseTaskSet::new("BarTasks").set_weight(5);

Task Set Host

A default host can be assigned to a task set, which will be used only if the --host CLI option is not set at run-time. For example, this can configure your load test to run against your local development environment by default, allowing the --host option to override host when you want to load test production. You can also assign different hosts to different task sets if this is desirable:

    foo_tasks.set_host("http://www.local");
    bar_tasks.set_host("http://www2.local");

Task Set Wait Time

Wait time is specified as a low-high integer range. Each time a task completes in the task set, the client will pause for a random number of seconds inclusively between the low and high wait times. In the following example, Clients loading foo tasks will sleep 0 to 3 seconds after each task completes, and Clients loading bar tasks will sleep 5 to 10 seconds after each task completes.

    foo_tasks.set_wait_time(0, 3);
    bar_tasks.set_host(5, 10);

Creating Tasks

A GooseTask must include a pointer to a function which will be executed each time the task is run.

    let mut a_task = GooseTask::new(task_function);

Task Name

A name can be assigned to a task, and will be displayed in statistics about all requests made by the task.

    let mut a_task = GooseTask::new(task_function).set_name("a");

Task Weight

Individual tasks can be assigned a weight, controlling how often the task runs. The larger the value of weight, the more it will run. In the following example, a_task runs 3 times as often as b_task:

    let mut a_task = GooseTask::new(a_task_function).set_weight(9);
    let mut b_task = GooseTask::new(b_task_function).set_weight(3);

Task Sequence

Tasks can also be configured to run in a sequence. For example, a task with a sequence value of 1 will always run before a task with a sequence value of 2. Weight can be applied to sequenced tasks, so for example a task with a weight of 2 and a sequence of 1 will run two times before a task with a sequence of 2. Task sets can contain tasks with sequence values and without sequence values, and in this case all tasks with a sequence value will run before tasks without a sequence value. In the folllowing example, a_task runs before b_task, which runs before c_task:

    let mut a_task = GooseTask::new(a_task_function).set_sequence(1);
    let mut b_task = GooseTask::new(b_task_function).set_sequence(2);
    let mut c_task = GooseTask::new(c_task_function);

Task On Start

Tasks can be flagged to only run when a client first starts. This can be useful if you'd like your load test to use a logged-in user. It is possible to assign sequences and weights to on_start functions if you want to have multiple tasks run in a specific order at start time, and/or the tasks to run multiple times. A task can be flagged to run both on start and on stop.

    a_task.set_on_start();

Task On Stop

Tasks can be flagged to only run when a client stops. This can be useful if you'd like your load test to simluate a user logging out when it finishes. It is possible to assign sequences and weights to on_stop functions if you want to have multiple tasks run in a specific order at stop time, and/or the tasks to run multiple times. A task can be flagged to run both on start and on stop.

    b_task.set_on_stop();

Controlling Clients

When Goose starts, it creates one or more GooseClients, assigning a single GooseTaskSet to each. This client is then used to generate load. Behind the scenes, Goose is leveraging the reqwest::blocking::client to load web pages, and Goose can therefor do anything Reqwest can do.

The most common request types are GET and POST, but HEAD, PUT, PATCH and DELETE are also supported.

GET

A helper to make a GET request of a path and collect relevant statistics. Automatically prepends the correct host.

    let _response = client.get("/path/to/foo");

The returned response is a reqwest::blocking::Response struct. You can use it as you would any Reqwest Response.

POST

A helper to make a POST request of a string value to the path and collect relevant statistics. Automatically prepends the correct host. The returned response is a reqwest::blocking::Response

    let _response = client.post("/path/to/foo", "string value to post");

License

Copyright 2020 Jeremy Andrews

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

Structs

GooseClient

An individual client state, repeatedly running all GooseTasks in a specific GooseTaskSet.

GooseRequest

Statistics collected about a path-method pair, (for example /index-GET).

GooseTask

An individual task within a GooseTaskSet.

GooseTaskSet

An individual task set.

Enums

GooseClientCommand

Commands sent between the parent and client threads.

GooseClientMode

Tracks the current run-mode of a client.